Jaroslav Pelikan initiates this forty-volume commentary series with his work on Acts. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve the church--through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth--and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practi…
For those who lack the linguistic and historical grounding or the time to use the two volume commentary in the "International Critical Commentary" series, this shorter edition has the main elements of the introduction and commentary but no foreign-language material, technical no…
First published in 1954, F. F. Bruce's volume on the Book of Acts in the NICNT series has stood for more than forty years as a standard commentary on Acts. In keeping with the effort to be faithful to the description "new" in the series title, however, Bruce undertook a thorough…
Scholars of Christian origins often regard Luke-Acts and the writings of Justin Martyr as similar accounts of the replacement of Israel by the non-Jewish church. According to this view, both authors commandeer the Jewish scriptures as the sole possession of non-Jewish Christ-bel…